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A comment on Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years). Parent comment

Re:Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years) by wruza on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:54PM (#32371505)
It means “stop processing arguments as options and leave them alone” to getopt-likes. E.g. to rm file named “-f”:

  rm -- -f
Idk the word, just minus minus.
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Re:Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years) by soupshield on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:59PM (#32371542)
> E.g. to rm file named “-f”:

I've defintely had this sort of problem in the past :)

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Re:Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years) by vultour on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:12PM (#32371628)
rm ./-f
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